The Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture explores and cultivates alternatives that secure healthier people and landscapes in Iowa and the nation.
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The Leopold Center is a research and education center on the campus of Iowa State University created to identify and reduce negative environmental and social impacts of farming and develop new ways to farm profitably while conserving natural resources. The Center's work is focused in these initiatives - ecological systems research, marketing and food systems research, policy research and cross-cutting research that bridges all areas (water, energy, soil and alternative farming systems).
Meet our newest Spencer Award winners
Jan Libbey and Tim Landgraf (center) received the 2012 Spencer Award for Sustainable Agriculture on Friday night during annual conference activities for Practical Farmers of Iowa. Now in its 10th year, the award is among the largest of its kind in Iowa and includes a $1,000 check.
Presenting the award was Laura Jackson, biology professor at the University of Northern Iowa and member of the Leopold Center's advisory board. Jackson has written about Libbey and Landgraf's One Step at a Time farm in her book, The Farm as Natural Habitat. Libbey and Landgraf have worked to re-establish wetlands and other wildlife habitat on their 132 acres adjacent to East Twin Lake forest. With them is Leopold Center Director Mark Rasmussen, who hopes to visit their farm when prairies are in bloom.
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